This is a heavily customised version of Firefox built just for Puppy. It is intended as a full replacement to the Seamonkey Suite and has been customised for great speed, usability, stability, looks, more features and a small filesize.

Firedog adds FireFTP, abcTajpu, Xinha and Bookmarks to the Puppy start menu, allowing you to use these addons outside Firedog! They're all shown in a simple window, without browser buttons or menus - fine examples of the Firefox '-chrome' flag.

- fixed combined refresh/stop button - no need to move them around
- all the latest AdBlock rules are now supported!! Thanks to the Fanboy list, now included by default
- talkback binary removed as Mozilla don't support FF2 now, saved over 1mb
- updated start menu items a bit
- flash player 9 now works perfectly in fullscreen (for me at least)

Please post any mirrors if you can, as various hosting services don't work for some. Thanks.

Screenshot below
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Why make another browser for Puppy?

Yes we have enough choice already, to the point of confusion. Firedog is a full-online suite, not a web browser. It's ideal for any puplet with no office, browser or mail, like ChoicePup or Puppy Arcade. It's fast, very stable, very easy to use and has many cool features and customisations.

A lot of the latest browsers are available for Puppy, but these often have a few bugs, occasionally crash and don't run so well on older systems. Firedog is based on Firefox 2 as it is more stable on Puppy and uses mostly the same addons as FF3 - but with smaller filesizes.

Details - What's in Firedog?

Adobe Flash player 9 is included, but updating Flash is easy. See 'Updating Flash' below.

You can find lots of great applications and addons in 'Bookmarks Toolbar->Addons'. This includes special applications and pages hacked out of Firedog that you can't otherwise find, for your pleasure and convenience!!

And more! (see changes to 1.1 and 1.2, above)

Firedog as a 'help-viewer'

'firefox -chrome (url)' can be used to display your URLs with NO menu, toolbars or buttons - just like PuppyBrowser. Despite some sites wrongly saying JS doesn't work, Firefox works very well in 'chrome' mode, especially as a 'help viewer'.

Firedog uses the ~/.mozilla folder. This does not alter Seamonkey but PuppyBrowser will NOT work due to 'missing' libs such as gtkembedmoz.so, although most of these libs can be found in /usr/lib/firefox.

To fix this, Firedog replaces Puppybrowser as the default help viewer, using 'chrome' mode

Screenshot shows Firedog in Puppy 4.3, with the Bookmarks Toolar & SideBar (both hidden easily), Xinha tabbed and FireFTP in its own window!! Notice the HUGE amount of screenspace, custom branding and the addons in the top-right corner.

The GUI font has been improved and looks much nicer now and notice how some tabs have been minimized to show only icons - this is simply enabled/disabled by a double-click on the tab.

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Mind if I ask why the separate .pet for the menu items? Why not just put them in the SFS?

[update] These links are now included in Firedog, however I've added only the FF extensions, not Pixlr or Queeky, as these are available in the bookmarks anyway and many people may use an office-suite alongside Firedog.Last edited by sc0ttman on Wed 28 Oct 2009, 06:40; edited 1 time in total

Also, is there an easy way to move one's bookmarks and passwords from Seamonkey to Firefox, and vice-versa?

Yes, export your bookmarks from Seamonkey/Firefox to create bookmarks.html.. Then import this file into the other browser.. You may need to do a little cleaning after, but it works. For passwords, I don't know.Last edited by sc0ttman on Thu 29 Oct 2009, 08:04; edited 1 time in total

So far as I know, none of the standard Puppy installs have come with Chinese character support. But there was/is a pet that allows such support to be added, at least for Seamonkey.

I had added such support previously for Puppy 3.9/4.0, but my 2fs file got destroyed, and I haven't been able to find the directions for reinstalling it.

It requires international character support to be installed IIRC, and then some Chinese fonts. It may be that this would work for any browsers installed.

Searching the forums on this topic, all I've found has to do with localization, which, if I understand it correctly, involves converting the entire OS to another language, so that all menus, etc. would be in Chinese,for example. Definitely not what I want.

My Chinese is barely good enough, that with a Chinese web page displayed properly, I can make out what it says sometimes with the help of Google translate.

If there is a Firefox plugin for Chinese, can I let it install in Puppy, or will that throw a spanner in the works?

I know I regularly get notices from Seamonkey that there's a new version, and inviting me to upgrade. But my understanding is that one has to wait for a new pet.

Similarly, I was just at the mozilla no-script download site, and it invited me to install the no-script addon, but I declined, fearing it would end up crippling my Puppy Seamonkey.

Are these valid concerns?_________________otropogo@gmail.com facebook.com/otropogo

Okay, so you didn't re-comile it, you still can't re-distribute the altered binary package from the developers and still use the name firefox -and you certainly can't go including non-free components like adobe flash plugins wit it. Read the license, dude. Even debian can't use the firefox name when they distribute their patched versions -since the patches are not officially approved and included in the main sources.

I truly congratulate you for any legitimate efforts you make to contribute the the open-source software movement. But stop and imagine, if all the original developers followed your example, would you be able to do what you do? No! Keep it clean -the effort to do so is a small price to pay for the freedom given by the original developers and their choice of licenses...

Don't be mad -think about it with a cool head and resolve to do the Right Thing -even when others around you don't.

This has been added to the main post. The pet file works on Puppy 4.2 and 4.3 with no differences, and it includes all start menu entries (for FireFTP, Xinha, etc) and can be easily removed in the package manager._________________Akita Linux, VLC-GTK, Pup Search, Pup File Search

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